Caption transcript for “The Palestinian Zionist”

• 00:16 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:26 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:38 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:41 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:43 JEFFREY SEIF HERE AGAIN
• 00:44 WITH ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:48 AND THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION AT THAT.
• 00:52 I'M THRILLED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO NAIM KHOURY, A FRIEND OF MINE,
• 00:58 A FRIEND OF OUR MINISTRY,
• 01:00 AN ARAB CHRISTIAN FROM BETHLEHEM.
• 01:04 THERE IS A FANTASTIC TESTIMONY HERE.
• 01:08 WHAT A STORY!
• 01:09 AND I AM THRILLED TO BRING IT TO YOU COAST TO COAST.
• 01:13 EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR WHAT THIS MAN HAS TO SAY.
• 01:17 FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS!
• 01:19 YOU'RE GOING TO BE TOUCHED DEEPLY IN YOUR HEART.
• 01:24 I WAS BORN IN THE REAL....
• 01:26 IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 01:28 MY GRANDFATHER WAS [A] GREEK PRIEST...
• 01:31 HAD ELEVEN UNCLES AND COUSINS.
• 01:32 THEY WERE GREEK PRIESTS
• 01:34 BUT THANKS UNTO GOD
• 01:35 FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO
• 01:37 I WAS INVITED TO A YOUNG PEOPLES MEETING IN JERUSALEM FOR
• 01:41 THE FIRST TIME WHERE
• 01:42 I HEARD THE GOSPEL
• 01:43 HOW JESUS CHRIST DIED ON A CROSS FOR ME...
• 01:46 HOW HE SHED HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD...
• 01:48 THAT NIGHT THE HOLY SPIRIT GRABBED MY HEART
• 01:51 AND I COULD NOT LEAVE THAT PLACE WITHOUT MAKING A DECISION.
• 01:54 HOW OLD WERE YOU?
• 01:55 I WAS ALMOST 17....
• 01:57 17 AND A FEW MONTHS.
• 01:58 SO FROM A FAMILY OF AN ARAB, PALESTINIAN GREEK ORTHODOX
• 02:04 A TEENAGER ACCEPTS JESUS.
• 02:08 YES THAT WAS VERY, VERY UNUSUAL
• 02:12 TO BE RAISED IN A PRIESTHOOD HOME,
• 02:14 A VERY RELIGIOUS HOME,
• 02:16 AND THAT NIGHT THE HOLY SPIRIT...
• 02:19 HE GRABBED MY HEART
• 02:21 AND I TRUSTED JESUS CHRIST AS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR.
• 02:24 I CAME BACK HOME VERY HAPPY, AND VERY EXCITED...
• 02:27 TRIED TO SHARE WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH ME.
• 02:30 AND I BET YOU THEY WEREN'T ALL HAPPY AND EXCITED.
• 02:32 NOT REALLY...NOT REALLY
• 02:33 WHEN I EXPLAINED TO THEM WHAT "BORN AGAIN" MEANS
• 02:37 THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT
• 02:40 BECAUSE THAT TERM "BORN AGAIN" [IN] THOSE DAYS
• 02:43 WAS NOT KNOWN IN [THE] MIDDLE EAST.
• 02:44 AND TO BE RAISED IN A PRIESTHOOD HOME
• 02:47 AND TO BE THE BABY AMONG TEN CHILDREN...
• 02:50 THAT WAS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT.
• 02:52 AND THEY STARTED GIVING ME [A] HARD TIME...
• 02:55 PERSECUTION...
• 02:56 AND FROM IN THE BEGINNING OF MY LIFE WITH THE LORD
• 03:00 I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO PRAY.
• 03:03 I HAVE DISCOVERED THE POWER OF PRAYER IN MY LIFE
• 03:07 AND THAT WAS REALLY [AN] AWESOME THING TO DO
• 03:11 TO BE ABLE TO DEPEND ON THE LORD WHILE EVERYBODY'S AGAINST YOU...
• 03:15 TURN AGAINST YOU...
• 03:16 PERSECUTE YOU...
• 03:17 AND ALL OF THAT...
• 03:19 BUT I HAVE LEARNED TO TRUST IN JESUS AND LEAN ON THE LORD.
• 03:22 YOU KNOW JEWISH BELIEVERS HAVE THE SAME KIND OF SITUATION
• 03:25 WHERE WE ACCEPT JESUS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT MAKES PROBLEMS.
• 03:28 YES THAT'S TRUE... THAT'S TRUE.
• 03:30 AND THEY STARTED GIVING ME A HARD TIME
• 03:33 AND I STARTED TO PRAY
• 03:34 AND I BELIEVED THAT GOD'S GOING TO DO SOMETHING.
• 03:37 AFTER 7 YEARS OF PERSECUTION
• 03:39 MY MOM CAME TO KNOW THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD
• 03:42 AND SHE AND I... WE STARTED TO PRAY
• 03:44 BECAUSE TWO TO PRAY IS BETTER THAN ONE.
• 03:48 AND YEAR AFTER YEAR...
• 03:50 THAT'S THE AWESOME THING ...TOOK PLACE AFTER THAT...
• 03:54 YEAR AFTER YEAR I SAW BROTHER AFTER BROTHER ...
• 03:58 SISTER AFTER SISTER...
• 04:00 COME TO KNOW THE LORD AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOR...
• 04:03 ACCEPTED THE LORD AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOR.
• 04:05 IT WAS REALLY A BLESSING TO ME
• 04:07 ACCEPT THE LAST ONE...
• 04:10 THE OLDEST ONE...
• 04:11 THE LAST ONE TOOK 27 YEARS...BELIEVE ME...
• 04:15 27 YEARS...DAILY PRAYER FOR HIM...FOR HIS SOUL.
• 04:20 AND AFTER 27 YEARS THE LORD REALLY TOUCHED HIS HEART
• 04:26 AND HE STARTED TO CRY LIKE A BABY...
• 04:28 TRUSTING JESUS CHRIST AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOR...
• 04:31 TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOR THE GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE.
• 04:34 HE LIVED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WITH FIVE CHILDREN.
• 04:37 A VERY, VERY HEAVY POPULATED, NON-CHRISTIAN AREA
• 04:42 AND STARTED TO WITNESS...
• 04:45 TO SHARE THE GOSPEL...
• 04:47 THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT...
• 04:48 THEY ASKED HIM TO LEAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD...
• 04:50 HE REFUSED TO...
• 04:52 BUT 8 YEARS AGO HE WAS COMING HOME ONE NIGHT...
• 04:54 A VERY DARK EVENING...
• 04:56 AND THREE MEN ATTACKED HIM WITH AXES AND KNIVES AND THEY MURDERED HIM...
• 05:00 HE WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD.
• 05:02 WELL LET'S JUST STOP HERE.
• 05:04 WE'VE GONE FROM A HAPPY STORY OF SOMEONE EXCEPTING JESUS...
• 05:08 PREVAILING IN PRAYER...
• 05:09 THE FAMILY GETTING SAVED...
• 05:11 ONE OF THE BROTHERS WHO GETS SAVED IN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 05:14 IS ATTACKED AND MURDERED FOR HIS FAITH.
• 05:17 YES...YES
• 05:20 AXES....KNIVES....
• 05:21 IT'S HORRIBLE!
• 05:22 THAT TOOK PLACE 8 YEARS AGO BROTHER JEFF
• 05:25 AND THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS IN MY MIND...
• 05:29 THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS
• 05:31 SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY A PRICE
• 05:35 TO SHOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SOMEWHERE ALONG THAT ROAD.
• 05:39 AND TO THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING TO THIS INTERVIEW
• 05:43 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THEM WITH GREAT LOVE...
• 05:46 WHAT KIND OF PRICE ARE THEY PAYING TO SERVE JESUS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD,
• 05:53 IN THE CITIES,
• 05:55 IN THEIR COMMUNITIES?
• 05:56 IT IS A REAL GOOD QUESTION
• 05:59 BUT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART ABOUT IT...
• 06:03 THE RESULT OF THE DEATH OF MY OLDEST BROTHER...
• 06:07 MY OLDEST SON STEPHEN...
• 06:09 GOD CALLED HIM TO PREACH THE GOSPEL FULL TIME
• 06:15 AND NOW HE'S [A] PASTOR [IN] NORTH JERUSALEM...
• 06:19 CALVARY CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.
• 06:21 SO HE USED THE DEATH TO BRING ABOUT NEW LIFE FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES.
• 06:24 EXACTLY
• 06:26 YOU KNOW THERE'S...
• 06:27 IN EXODUS IT SAYS THE MORE THEY WERE OPPRESSED
• 06:28 THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED...
• 06:29 AND IT WAS A CHURCH LEADER WHO ONCE SAID
• 06:31 THAT THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS IS THE SEED OF THE CHURCH.
• 06:34 YOU'VE EXPERIENCED THAT HERE.
• 06:36 YES SIR...YES SIR
• 06:37 WE SEE IT...
• 06:38 WE EXPERIENCE IT...
• 06:39 AND WE SAW THE OUTCOME OF THAT.
• 06:42 IT'S A BLESSING SOMETIMES....
• 06:43 YOU KNOW IT'S NOT ALWAYS...GRIEVE... AND SADNESS...
• 06:49 BUT GOD'S WAYS [ARE] NOT LIKE OUR WAYS...
• 06:53 GOD WILL BRING BACK TO YOU SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF THAT...
• 06:58 AND HE DID.
• 07:01 SINCE WE'RE ON THE TRACK...
• 07:02 AND BY THE WAY...
• 07:04 MY HEART GRIEVES AS WE SPEAK FOR MY ARAB CHRISTIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST
• 07:10 HERE IN ISRAEL...
• 07:12 BETHLEHEM, ISRAEL...
• 07:14 YOUR BROTHER WAS MARTYRED HERE A FEW YEARS AGO.
• 07:17 MY UNDERSTANDING IS AS WELL THAT YOU WERE SHOT NOT LONG AGO...FOUR TIMES.
• 07:21 YES SIR...
• 07:22 I THANK GOD FOR MY STORY
• 07:28 THAT IN THE BEGINNING WE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:35 CHRISTIANS IN THOSE DAYS...
• 07:37 THEY ARE AWAY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 07:41 THEY CONSIDER IT A JEWISH BOOK...
• 07:43 HISTORY BOOK...
• 07:44 RABBISH BOOK...
• 07:45 BUT AFTER I WAS SAVED
• 07:47 THE HOLY SPIRIT STARTED TO SPEAK TO MY HEART CONCERNING THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:51 I WENT AHEAD AND [FOUND] ONE
• 07:54 AND I STARTED TO READ THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 07:56 AND THE MORE I READ THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 07:58 THE MORE GOD STARTED TO PUT SPECIAL LOVE IN MY HEART FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 08:07 AND THAT'S ODD...
• 08:09 YOU KNOW JUST...
• 08:10 A PALESTINIAN?...
• 08:12 AND JUST CAME OUT OF WAR....
• 08:14 ISRAEL TOOK OVER IN JERUSALEM AND [THE] WEST BANK AND GAZA
• 08:18 AND YOU SAY GOD PUT SPECIAL LOVE IN YOUR HEART FOR THE JEWISH?
• 08:23 I SAID, "YES".
• 08:24 THERE'S A LOT OF TENSION,
• 08:25 A LOT OF PRESSURE...
• 08:27 YOU'RE READING THE BIBLE WITH JESUS IN YOUR HEART
• 08:30 AND YOU'RE ALIGHTING UPON PASSAGES
• 08:32 THAT SPEAK ABOUT GOD'S LOVE FOR THE JEWS AND FOR ISRAEL.
• 08:35 THAT PUTS YOU AT ODDS WITH A LOT OF FRIENDS THAT ARE UNHAPPY WITH JEWISH PRESENCE.
• 08:39 AND THAT WILL REALLY PUT ME IN A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION.
• 08:45 BECAUSE BEFORE I WAS SAVED
• 08:47 AS A GREEK ORTHODOX I [KNEW] NOTHING ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT...
• 08:51 WE'RE NOT ALLOWED EVEN TO DISCUSS THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 08:54 OR READ THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 08:56 THEY'RE CONSIDERED JUST ONLY A JEWISH BOOK.
• 08:58 AND WHEN I STARTED DOING THAT...
• 09:01 THAT REALLY OPENED MY EYES SPIRITUALLY
• 09:05 AND OPENED MY EYES ALSO PHYSICALLY TO UNDERSTAND
• 09:09 WHAT THE COVENANT OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM MEANT.
• 09:13 AND I STARTED TO READ MORE AND MORE
• 09:15 AND THE MORE I READ THE MORE GOD INCREASED THAT LOVE IN MY HEART FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 09:21 AND THAT'S ODD... THAT'S NOT USUAL.
• 09:24 THAT'S ODD...AND THAT BECOMES PART OF YOUR MESSAGE.
• 09:26 IT'S NOT JUST THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE SENT HIS SON,
• 09:29 IT'S THAT GOD LOVES EVEN THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 09:32 THAT'S A TOUGH MESSAGE TO GIVE FOR AN ARAB PASTOR HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 09:38 YES BECAUSE THAT TIME I [HAD] DECIDED TO ACCEPT THE BIBLE.
• 09:44 THE BIBLE IS THE 66 BOOKS...
• 09:47 THE INFALLIBLE, INSPIRED WORD OF GOD.
• 09:49 NOT ONLY THE BIBLE AS THEY TAUGHT US WHILE WE WERE SO YOUNG...
• 09:54 ONLY THE NEW TESTAMENT...
• 09:55 NO THAT'S NOT TRUE...
• 09:56 AND THAT'S WHY BOTH JEWS, PALESTINIANS, ARAB, ANYBODY...
• 10:01 NEED TO KNOW THAT JESUS DIED FOR THEM...
• 10:05 HE LOVES THEM.
• 10:08 OKAY, SO IF I UNDERSTAND YOUR STORY CORRECTLY...
• 10:11 IN FACT IF YOU WOULD GO AHEAD AND TELL IT.
• 10:15 WE'RE HERE AT THE CHURCH NOW...
• 10:17 YOUR CHURCH IN BETHLEHEM.
• 10:19 AND YOUR HOME IS ON THE PROPERTY OF THE FACILITY.
• 10:23 YOU'RE COMING HOME ONE EVENING...
• 10:26 OR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET SHOT IF I CAN ASK?
• 10:28 YES...AS I SAID BEFORE...
• 10:30 BELIEVING IN THE COVENANT OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM
• 10:33 YOU MAKE LOTS OF ENEMIES AMONG THE TRADITIONAL CHURCHES
• 10:39 LIKE THE PALESTINIAN...
• 10:40 THE ARAB...
• 10:42 BECAUSE THEY DO BELIEVE IN THE REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
• 10:44 IN OTHER WORDS...
• 10:45 ISRAEL....
• 10:46 THE CHURCH REPLACED ISRAEL...
• 10:48 GOD HAS FINISHED WITH ISRAEL AND ALL OF THAT...
• 10:52 BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE...
• 10:54 GOD IS NOT FINISHED WITH ISRAEL YET.
• 10:57 AND THE RESULT OF THAT...
• 10:59 THEY DID NOT LIKE FOR ME TO TEACH THE WHOLE TRUTH
• 11:06 ABOUT THE BIBLE AND THE COVENANT...
• 11:09 IN OTHER WORDS...
• 11:10 SO YOU'RE TELLING THAT STORY HERE IN YOUR CHURCH YES
• 11:12 AND WORD IS GETTING OUT YES
• 11:14 AND PEOPLE ARE COMING AND TALKING TO YOU
• 11:16 SAYING YOU NEED TO GET RID OF THAT MESSAGE
• 11:17 AND YOU SAID NO.
• 11:18 NO...I CANNOT
• 11:20 BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE WHOLE BIBLE.
• 11:22 I BELIEVE IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
• 11:24 AND THE INSPIRED, INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD...
• 11:27 IT'S THE COVENANT OF GOD.
• 11:29 AND GOD SAID TO ME...
• 11:30 HE SAID IF YOU NEED TO BE BLESSED
• 11:32 YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN AND SHARE THE FULL COVENANT
• 11:37 AND THE PROMISES OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM...
• 11:38 IT'S AN EVERLASTING COVENANT FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER...
• 11:43 AND NO ONE CAN REPLACE IT OR CHANGE IT.
• 11:45 THE RESULT OF THAT...
• 11:47 I START TO FACE DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS HERE IN BETHLEHEM.
• 11:49 THIS CHURCH WAS BOMBED 14 TIMES.
• 11:53 14 TIMES,
• 11:55 AND FOUR YEARS AGO I WAS SHOT...
• 11:58 FOUR BULLETS...
• 12:00 ONE HIT MY LEFT SHOULDER HERE...
• 12:03 AND A LOT OF THREATENING...
• 12:05 A LOT OF DIFFICULTIES...
• 12:07 BUT I BELIEVE FROM ALL MY HEART THAT MY TIME IS NOT TO GO YET.
• 12:13 I NEED TO KEEP THE MESSAGE...
• 12:15 PREACH THE MESSAGE.
• 12:16 I GUESS IT'S NOT YOUR TIME YET
• 12:18 BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL HERE
• 12:19 AND YOU'RE STILL PREACHING AND TEACHING. AMEN
• 12:21 NOW ON THE WAY HERE OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG TOLD ME,
• 12:26 HE SAYS,"THERE'S SOMEONE THAT YOU NEED TO MEET".
• 12:29 HE SAID, "JEFFREY YOU NEED TO MEET PASTOR KHOURY"
• 12:33 BECAUSE YOU CAME SO HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...
• 12:35 I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY NOW THAT I'M HEARING YOUR STORY.
• 12:40 PERSECUTED FOR YOUR FAITH IN JESUS...
• 12:42 GIVEN FOR DEAD FOR WANTING TO STAND WITH JEWISH PEOPLE
• 12:47 IN A CHURCH THAT WAS BOMBED 14 TIMES.
• 12:51 YES SIR...
• 12:53 IT'S HONOR FOR ME TO SERVE MY SAVIOR
• 12:57 BECAUSE HE'S THE LIVING SAVIOR.
• 12:59 IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 13:03 THANK YOU...YOU ARE MOST WELCOME HERE
• 13:06 AND WE JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT HE'S DOING.
• 13:08 HERE WE HAVE SEEN MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE [TAKE] PLACE IN OUR CHURCH.
• 13:14 ALMOST 48 MIRACLES THE LAST TWO - THREE YEARS.
• 13:17 I MEAN SERIOUS MIRACLES.
• 13:19 YOU TALK ABOUT CANCER BEING HEALED...
• 13:22 YOU TALK ABOUT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BEING HEALED...
• 13:24 YOU TALK ABOUT HEART DISEASES BEING HEALED...
• 13:27 YOU TALK ABOUT LOTS OF RHEUMATISM BEING HEALED...
• 13:31 ONE AFTER ONE...
• 13:32 AND THE MOST AWESOME MINISTRY WE'VE SEEN THE LAST 5 YEARS BROTHER JEFF
• 13:37 IS THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY.
• 13:40 THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY HAS BEEN [AN] AWESOME MINISTRY
• 13:44 SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE BEING DELIVERED FROM DEMONIC SPIRITS
• 13:50 AND THEY'RE GETTING SAVED...
• 13:52 THEY'RE GETTING BAPTIZED...
• 13:54 THEY JOIN THE CHURCH...
• 13:55 AND SOME OF THEM SING IN THE CHOIR TODAY PRAISING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
• 13:59 SO IT SEEMS THAT AS THE DEVIL TRIES TO ASSAULT YOU
• 14:04 THAT GOD IS JUST TAKING YOU FROM GLORY TO GLORY IN YOUR MINISTRY.
• 14:08 AMEN...BECAUSE THE DEVIL NEVER EVER WAS VICTORIOUS ANY TIME.
• 14:13 HE HAS BEEN DEFEATED
• 14:16 AND HE IS DEFEATED BY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
• 14:19 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE VICTORY IN JESUS.
• 14:22 WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYES ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
• 14:25 SERVING HIM FAITHFULLY.
• 14:27 WHEN WE ARE FAITHFUL TO HIM
• 14:30 HE WILL STAY FAITHFUL TO US.
• 14:40 I REALLY LOVE THAT GUY
• 14:42 AND I TRUST THAT HE'S MADE HIS WAY INTO YOUR HEART JUST AS HE MADE HIS WAY INTO MINE.
• 14:51 AN ARAB CHRISTIAN...
• 14:52 A GUY WHO CAME TO FAITH IN JESUS
• 14:54 DEVELOPED A LOVE FOR JESUS...
• 14:57 DEVELOPED A LOVE FOR SCRIPTURE...
• 14:59 AND JESUS IN THE SCRIPTURE LEAD HIM TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 15:06 IT'S EASIER TO STAND FOR ISRAEL HERE IN THE STATES THAN IT IS THERE IN THE WEST BANK...
• 15:14 AND HE DOES THAT SO ELEGANTLY.
• 15:16 I WAS THRILLED ON OUR DIME TO WANT YOU TO BE EXPOSED TO HIM...
• 15:23 SO HIS STORY COULD BE HEARD COAST TO COAST...
• 15:26 SO WE COULD LEARN ABOUT THE SPECIAL WAYS THAT GOD IS MOVING IN ISRAEL...
• 15:32 MOVING THROUGH HIM...
• 15:34 MOVING THROUGH OUR MINISTRY...
• 15:38 THE LORD'S MOVING THROUGH YOU AS WELL.
• 15:40 I WANT TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE LORD'S MOVING
• 15:43 AND WE'LL GET BACK TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
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• 16:16 I'VE HAD A BLAST
• 16:18 THE BIGGEST THING THAT I REALLY HAVE TO SAY IS
• 16:20 THAT I'VE GOTTEN MY MONEY'S WORTH ALREADY
• 16:22 AND WE'RE ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH THE TRIP.
• 16:23 IT'S JUST BEEN UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH WE'VE SEEN...
• 16:25 INCREDIBLY PROFESSIONAL...
• 16:27 REALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT.
• 16:28 EVERY WHERE WE GET YOU CAN TELL THAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE FACT WE WERE COMING.
• 16:31 IT'S REALLY NICE TO BE SO WELL TAKEN CARE OF.
• 16:33 I HAVE FELT SO SAFE HERE.
• 16:35 I FEEL SAFER HERE THAN I DO IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 16:37 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU
• 16:38 TO MAKE A TRIP OF A LIFETIME
• 16:40 TO COME HERE.
• 16:41 YOU'LL LOVE IT I PROMISE.
• 16:47 WHEN IT COMES TO GOING TO ISRAEL
• 16:49 WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ACT IN TOWN.
• 16:52 IF YOU WANT TO GO TO ISRAEL
• 16:53 I'M GLAD YOU'RE GOING
• 16:55 BUT IF YOU WANT TO GO WITH US
• 16:56 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO SEE THE PEOPLE... NOT JUST THE STEEPLE.
• 16:59 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT SITES...
• 17:01 IT'S ABOUT LIVING ORGANISMS.
• 17:03 THAT'S WHY I'M THRILLED FOR YOU TO HAVE EXPERIENCED PASTOR KHOURY
• 17:07 AND WHY I'M THRILLED FOR YOU TO HEAR THE GUY THAT'S COMING UP IN A MINUTE...
• 17:10 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE PEOPLE...
• 17:12 ARAB-CHRISTIAN PEOPLE...
• 17:14 JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TO FAITH.
• 17:16 WE WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT GOD IS DOING THERE TODAY.
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• 17:38 A COVER STORY OF A RECENT ONE...
• 17:40 "A MUSLIM OBSERVES A JEWISH LAND".
• 17:43 AND THIS IS A POSITIVE SPIN BY THE WAY.
• 17:46 YOU'RE GOING TO GET STORIES NOT TYPICALLY COVERED IN THE POPULAR PRESS.
• 17:51 TALK ABOUT STORIES NOT TYPICALLY COVERED,
• 17:53 THE OFFER IN THIS PROGRAM IS A STORY THAT WAS WRITTEN A FEW YEARS AGO.
• 17:57 IT'S ON THE BIBLE.
• 17:58 AND ZOLA AND DR. TOM MCCALL WROTE "THE BIBLE JESUS READ"
• 18:04 WE'RE ALL ABOUT BIBLE TEACHING.
• 18:06 WE THINK THAT IF THE BIBLE CAN GET INTO THE HEAD AND MAKE ITS WAY TO THE HEART...BINGO...
• 18:11 THERE'S SOLUTIONS THERE FOR MID EAST PEACE.
• 18:14 THERE'S SOLUTIONS THERE FOR THE TROUBLES THAT YOU FACE
• 18:18 AS YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 18:22 WE'RE GOING TO HEAR NOW FROM ARIE, ONE OF THE PIONEERS...
• 18:26 HIS FAMILY...
• 18:27 WE'RE GOING BACK TO SOME OF THE VERY FIRST JEWISH BELIEVERS IN JESUS
• 18:33 IN THE MODERN NATION STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 18:37 THIS IS FASCINATING AND THIS IS COMING TO YOU.
• 18:41 OFF WE GO NOW AS DAVID DOLAN INTRODUCES ONE OF ISRAEL'S FIRST AND FINEST.
• 18:50 AND I WAS ONE OF
• 18:51 SEVEN CHILDREN
• 18:53 TO FATHER...MOTHER...
• 18:54 WHICH WERE THE FIRST COUPLE
• 18:56 THAT STARTED A FAMILY OF
• 18:57 BELIEVERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 18:59 SO WHEN THEY CAME...
• 19:01 MY FATHER CAME 1928 ALREADY TO ISRAEL...
• 19:04 ACTUALLY MY MOTHER CAME EVEN BEFORE...
• 19:07 BUT AS A BABY SHE WAS ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD
• 19:11 AND SHE GOT MALARIA
• 19:12 AND THEN HER PARENTS HAD TO TAKE HER BACK TO BULGARIA.
• 19:16 BUT WE WERE GROWN HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:19 AND FROM 1944 WE PASSED HERE...
• 19:23 THE INDEPENDENT WAR, EVEN THOUGH...
• 19:25 EVEN THOUGH MY FATHER GOT A TICKET THAT HE COULD LEAVE THE COUNTRY
• 19:30 BUT HE DIDN'T WANT TO...
• 19:31 HE WANTED TO STAY HERE
• 19:33 TO BE A PART OF THE NATION.
• 19:35 AND WHILE WE FOUND OURSELVES AROUND 15 YEARS...
• 19:40 ACTUALLY ALMOST THE ONLY FAMILY OF BELIEVERS IN JERUSALEM
• 19:45 AND THAT'S WHY WE THE CHILDREN, THE BROTHERS...
• 19:48 WE WERE SIX BROTHERS, ONE SISTER...
• 19:50 WE WERE VERY...
• 19:51 ALL THE TIME BETWEEN US BECAUSE THERE WERE NO OTHERS.
• 19:55 BUT I REMEMBER WHEN MY FATHER SAID,
• 19:57 "YOU WILL SEE WHEN WE WILL BE SEVENTY BELIEVERS IN THIS CITY'.
• 20:02 AND THEN HE SAID,
• 20:03 "YOU WILL SEE WHEN WE WILL BE SEVEN HUNDRED".
• 20:05 ACTUALLY HE DIDN'T SEE THE DAYS THAT WE WERE SEVEN THOUSAND
• 20:09 BECAUSE HE PASSED DURING THE GULF WAR [IN] 1991.
• 20:13 BUT IT'S AMAZING TO SEE NOWADAYS
• 20:16 HOW MANY ASSEMBLIES YOU HAVE IN JERUSALEM OF BELIEVERS.
• 20:21 HOW MANY ARE THERE?
• 20:23 I THINK MORE THAN FIFTY.
• 20:24 MORE THAN FIFTY?
• 20:25 YES...SPREAD ALL OVER...
• 20:27 SOME OF THEM I NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT...RIGHT?
• 20:29 SPREAD ALL OVER JERUSALEM.
• 20:31 ARIE YOU CAME FROM A MESSIANIC FAMILY...
• 20:34 A BELIEVING FAMILY FROM YOUR YOUTH
• 20:36 SO OBVIOUSLY YOU WERE A BELIEVER WHILE YOU WERE IN THE MILITARY
• 20:39 SERVING IN THE VARIOUS WARS AND THAT.
• 20:41 WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
• 20:43 YOU MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT THE ONLY BELIEVER IN YOUR UNIT.
• 20:46 WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?
• 20:48 ACTUALLY I'VE FACED FIVE WARS THAT I TOOK PART
• 20:52 AND I INCLUDE ALSO THE IRAQ...YOU KNOW?
• 20:57 BECAUSE I WAS A COMMANDER OF A VERY BIG AREA
• 21:00 AND FROM MANY POINTS THIS WAS VERY HARD
• 21:03 BECAUSE [THE] FIRST TIME WAS SO...
• 21:05 MORE THAN TURKEY...
• 21:06 OF THE MISSILES...
• 21:08 WE SAW THEM HOW THEY CROSSED HERE JUST ABOVE US...
• 21:11 JUST ABOVE US, THE ATMOSPHERE, AND FALLING ON RAMAT GAN, TEL AVIV
• 21:15 WHERE ALL MY FAMILY USED TO LIVE.
• 21:18 I'VE BEEN IN [THE] OLDEST WARS IN THE FRONT...
• 21:23 REALLY IN THE FIRST UNIT.
• 21:25 I CHOSE IT...
• 21:26 I WANTED IT...
• 21:28 THAT'S WHY I VOLUNTEERED TO BE A PARATROOPER
• 21:30 AND THAT'S WHY I REALLY BELIEVE THAT WE BELIEVERS HAVE TO BE IN THE FRONT...
• 21:35 WE HAVE TO BE THE ANCHOR...
• 21:37 REALLY THE SOURCE OF ENCOURAGING OUR PEOPLE.
• 21:45 WE KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT REALLY KEEPING DEUTERONOMY 20...
• 21:50 WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME AND ENCOURAGE THE NATION...
• 21:53 "DON'T BE AFRAID BECAUSE GOD IS IN FRONT OF US..
• 21:56 I BELIEVE WE AS A BELIEVER...
• 21:58 I AM TAKING THE PLACE OF A PRIEST.
• 22:01 AND THERE WAS A PRIEST IN THE WAR...
• 22:04 AND HE HAD TO ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE...
• 22:06 AND THAT'S WHAT I DID...
• 22:07 I ENCOURAGED MY UNITS...
• 22:09 MY SOLDIERS...
• 22:10 MY COMMANDERS...
• 22:12 THROUGH ALL THESE WARS...
• 22:14 AND I CAN WRITE BOOKS ABOUT WHAT THE MEANING [IS] FOR A BELIEVER TO BE IN A WAR.
• 22:21 A JUST WANT TO MENTION ONE THING...
• 22:24 IN THE GULF WAR...
• 22:25 JUST TO SHOW YOU [FROM] WHERE IT CAME...
• 22:28 WE HAD BIBLE STUDIES AT RAMAT GAN...
• 22:31 THIS WAS THE CITY THAT WAS BOMBED MORE THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN ISRAEL.
• 22:34 WE USED TO GO EVERY SHABBAT NIGHT TO RAMAT GAN...
• 22:39 NOW ALL THE ESTABLISHMENTS [WERE] FULL OF PEOPLE
• 22:43 BECAUSE IN RAMAT GAN...REFUGE.
• 22:45 THEY'D COME UP HERE ON THE HILLS.
• 22:46 THEY'D COME HERE.
• 22:47 AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT WE ARE GOING TO RAMAT GAN
• 22:49 THEY SAID "YOU'RE CRAZY"
• 22:50 "THEY ARE BOMBING THE CITY"
• 22:51 WE TOLD [THEM] "WE ARE NOT CRAZY."
• 22:53 WE WENT DOWN THERE IN MY FATHER'S HOME...
• 22:56 HE WAS 86 YEARS OLD...
• 22:58 WITH ALL OUR CHILDREN...
• 22:59 WE HAD BIBLE STUDIES...
• 23:02 OUR CHURCH WAS OUR HOME...
• 23:05 AND THEN THE SIRENS STARTED...
• 23:07 THE MISSILE IS GOING TO COME.
• 23:10 AND YOU HAD TO LOOK ON MY FATHER...
• 23:11 IT'S TOUGH FOR A MOMENT...
• 23:13 AND THEN HE SAID,
• 23:15 "I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE SADDAM HUSSEIN ONE MINUTE FROM OUR MEETING"...
• 23:18 "WE ARE CONTINUING".
• 23:20 AND HE WAS PREACHING AND SHARING...
• 23:24 ON THIS SITE YOU COULD HEAR THE SIRENS
• 23:26 AND THEN THE BOMBS...
• 23:28 SOME OF THEM FELL SO CLOSE
• 23:29 AND SOME OF THE SHUTTERS WERE BROKEN...RIGHT?
• 23:32 AND HE CONTINUED WITH HIS BIBLE TEACHING.
• 23:38 AND FOR ME TO SEE THIS KIND...
• 23:41 BECAUSE ALL THE LIFE WAS LIKE THIS...
• 23:43 MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER...
• 23:46 THE LIVED [IN] BULGARIA [IN] THE SECOND WORLD WAR...
• 23:48 IN THE BALTIC...
• 23:49 AND TO SIT THROUGH ALL THIS YEAR...
• 23:52 WHAT IS THE MEANING [THAT] DURING WAR
• 23:55 YOU ARE TRUSTING THE LORD AND HE IS ON YOUR SIDE.
• 23:58 AND I SHARED THIS SO MANY TIMES...
• 24:00 THIS VERSE...
• 24:02 THOUSANDS WERE FALLING AT ONE SIDE...
• 24:04 TEN THOUSAND DO NOT TOUCH ME.
• 24:05 I SHARED WHAT HAPPENED WITH ME IN THE WARS FULFILLING THIS WORK.
• 24:10 SO THIS WAR FOR ME WAS [AN] AMAZING TIME
• 24:15 WHEN I COULD SEE HOW GOD REALLY SHOWS HIMSELF
• 24:19 IN WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL WAYS...
• 24:22 NOT ONLY TO ME BUT TO SO MANY WHICH WERE AROUND.
• 24:46 ♪(ZOLA PLAYING THE PIANO)♪
• 25:29 ZOLA'S MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL ISN'T IT?
• 25:32 AND HOW ABOUT THOSE TESTIMONIES?
• 25:35 I'LL TELL YOU...I'M ALWAYS GOING TO REMEMBER ARIE FOR THIS...
• 25:39 WHEN THOSE MISSILES ARE COMING OVER...HE DOESN'T' WANT TO GIVE THE DEVIL A MINUTE.
• 25:45 HIS FATHER SAYS, "I'M GOING TO KEEP PREACHING ON AND IGNORE THAT FELLA".
• 25:50 THE REASON WHY THAT'S GOING TO STICK WITH ME
• 25:52 IS I THINK WE GIVE THE DEVIL WAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION.
• 25:57 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU
• 25:59 BUT IT'S EASY FOR ME TO GET WRAPPED AROUND...
• 26:02 INTERNALLY THOSE ENGINES GET TURNED ON...
• 26:05 I GET NEGATIVE...
• 26:06 MY NOSE GOES DOWN...
• 26:08 I GIVE HIM WAY TOO MUCH AIR TIME.
• 26:11 I LOVE IT...HE SAYS, "I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE SADDAM A MINUTE".
• 26:15 AND I'M GOING TO TRY AND LEARN SOMETHING.
• 26:17 I TRY AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM ALL OF MY EXPERIENCES WITH PEOPLE...
• 26:21 WITH THE BIBLE...
• 26:22 I HOPE YOU DO TOO.
• 26:24 THAT SAID...I HOPE YOU'RE LEARNING SOMETHING FROM THIS...
• 26:27 THAT IS THIS PROGRAM...
• 26:29 THESE TESTIMONIES...
• 26:30 OUR MINISTRY.
• 26:32 IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH
• 26:33 YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY CONNECTING WITH ZOLA LEVITT
• 26:36 ON TWITTER...
• 26:37 MYSPACE...
• 26:39 FACEBOOK...
• 26:40 YOUTUBE...
• 26:41 WE'RE OUT THERE...
• 26:43 WE'RE OUT THERE BECAUSE YOU HELP US.
• 26:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GOING WITH US ON THE JOURNEY.
• 26:48 IF YOU WANT TO CONNECT WITH US
• 26:49 YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY OUR WEBSITE...WWW.LEVITT.COM
• 26:55 SPEAKING OF CONNECTING...
• 26:57 STAY CONNECTED WITH JESUS THROUGH PRAYER.
• 26:59 AND AS YOU GO NOW, PLEASE...
• 27:01 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 27:04 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM